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Re: OpenSocial is half-baked and Google execs don’t seem to care

Jeff Judge — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:39:24 -0000

Let's remember that OpenSocial just launched - and that pretty much everything is half baked at launch. I'm sure Google will get to the happy place. Facebook has done plenty of major API changes after they launched F8 that forced developers to make changes.

Re: OpenSocial is half-baked and Google execs don’t seem to care

Ramon — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:14:44 -0000

What's wrong with iniciatives? If you can make your product better by community iniciative it's the best way to go.
Junior, I think that's how it works everywhere :).

Re: OpenSocial is half-baked and Google execs don’t seem to care

Junior Tactician — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:19:57 -0000

Yuri, this is how business has always been done in Silicon Valley :)

Re: OpenSocial is half-baked and Google execs don’t seem to care

Yuri Ammosov — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:50:34 -0000

Er. "This program is bad but if it gives $50M to my portfolio companies it will be not so bad".

Matt, is this the way business is now done in Silicon Valley? Hell, then I am moving back here.

Re: OpenSocial is half-baked and Google execs don’t seem to care

Ramon — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:43:06 -0000

I just don't get one point, why are the engineers complaining about authentication if Authsub is already defined and google calendar logon as well... it's just a matter of matching Authsub with google calendar.
Lee has good points, but you have to give some credit to today's sandbox. You can already make some pretty interesting apps for OpenSocial already.. I think it needs the same iniciative as Android is having ;).

Re: OpenSocial is half-baked and Google execs don’t seem to care

Jan — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:55:47 -0000

"align cross-platform Terms of Services agreements"

IMHO, success in aligning cross-platform ToS's that are fair in terms of data/content/IP ownership would be more valuable than the common API hooks.

Re: OpenSocial is half-baked and Google execs don’t seem to care

A. Smith — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:30:32 -0000

This article does seem biased, though Lee makes a few good points. I'd bet on Google 1000x before betting anything on Facebook which is just this decades GeoCities. Not that Facebook isn't a great service, it is simply hot right now and has no obvious staying power to extend its' lifecycle beyond the current boom in social networking.

Re: OpenSocial is half-baked and Google execs don’t seem to care

Biased, But Accurate — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:25:50 -0000

Lee is biased but this does not mean he is wrong. OpenSocial is half-baked because myriad of details FB developers take for granted are up in the air. In many cases these design decisions will be made in proprietary extensions and containter TOSes.

This does not mean Google / MySpace will not get it right, but it is a long hard road.

Re: OpenSocial is half-baked and Google execs don’t seem to care

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:22:41 -0000

How can somebody INVESTING IN FACEBOOK APPLICATIONS, write an unbiased article ?